What exactly is the need for building up vocabulary or knowing new words over and above the common words ? I am not asking from academic perspective but trying to grasp the real need for learning new words. Some say that it helps express oneself better but how that’s not possible with the most commonly used words and rare words are anyways perhaps might not be comprehensible as they are uncommon. Isn’t simple and easy better ? Most books use uncommon words that are not spoken in day to day life. Request your views
I’m with Borges with simple and easy. The message I think should be clear for the reader, in quantity and quality. However as - if I remember correctly - Wittgenstein said it, the limit of my language is the limit of my world. Some time we need specific words suited for what we want to express.